HIV preventative care is a huge issue for activists. Gilead Sciences in Cork manufactures the drug Truveda. Caomhan Keane meets the head of commercial operations.

A PILL used to treat people with HIV can also prevent infection by the Aids virus, a study has found.

Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases jolted the world, US scientists think they soon may have a pill that could prevent HIV, the virus that causes the disease.

A panel of European experts yesterday backed the use of Elan’s painkiller Prialt, giving a fillip to Ireland’s leading drug maker.